ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 11, 2012

Your ultimate breadwinner for social media engagement is photos. Do you remember being younger and loving books packed full of photos? The same rule applies with social media! There are, of course, social media channels that solely rely on photos, such as Instagram and Pinterest. Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. 1. I read the manuscript over the summer so I could blurb this book.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

" [Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation – Here is a terrific interview with my friend and colleague Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation – she discusses both the tools she uses and the lessons she's learned from managing the social media presence for the NWF.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Note from Beth : As I’m sprinting to towards the deadline of my next book on Measurement and Networked Nonprofits , co-authoring with the goddess of measurement, KD Paine , I’m grateful to have some terrific guest posts like this one from Simon Mainwaring. We First Social Branding seminar to be held in Los Angeles on February 1-2.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. We have entered a new era of social media marketing. Promote your Snapcode and share your Snapchat Username on multiple communication channels. Do not be lame on Snapchat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. She was able to go to her boss and get some more resources in the budget for social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In her recent book, Beth Kanter talks about a ladder of engagement, with smaller actions laying the foundation for larger ones. In 2011, HubSpot’s Dan Zarrella conducted extensive research on the topic of social media timing. How to leverage it: Use a social media scheduler to line up posts for the weekend.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!], The Social Web, and Web 3.0:

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2014

The study looked at peer-to-peer giving across 39 organizations over the last 3 years (from 2011 to 2013). In the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere , that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, we disucss the pyschology of fundraising. Ask people on both channels. The endurance event stats are not suprising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. What will the future 2020 be like?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!], The Social Web, and Web 3.0:

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2012

Last year I made a personal reading list: 12 books in 12 months which felt incredibly reasonable since I love to read. It included books like The Life of Pi , The Deep End of the Ocean , Tuesdays with Morrie (all read, way to go me) and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (not read, in fact I forgot that one until just now).

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Congratulations to United Way of Lake County (UWLC) for receiving the 2011 Innovator Award in the Peer-to-Peer Fundraising category! Collected more than 154,000 books over the course of the campaign, exceeding their target by more than 50 percent. Author: Jill Ward.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. There was no time to get in any more final edits and I feared that the book would be terribly out of date by the time it was released. and Web 3.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

In our session on Community Voice at NTEN’s 2011 Nonprofit Techology Conference, Arthur provided a case study of the LikeMinded program and how it was built based on engagement with the community. Peggy shared her experience as the Executive Director of WiserEarth , the Social Network for Sustainability. WiserEarth.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, April 13, 2011 The cockroach under the refrigerator: scandal and malpractice in philanthropy posted by Travis Butterfield , Project Coordinator ASU Lodestar Center Ever since I worked with Laura Tan on editing her recent blog post , I have been thinking about the unintended effects that volunteer service can have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard. Now that’s social impact! SafeAmerica Foundation , Bill Soule.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 2 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 18th, 2011 Day 2 of NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) in Washington, DC is when things really kick into high gear.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 1 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 17th, 2011 NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) is in Washington, DC and it’s sold out once again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Social media accelerates the crowdsourcing process – it can happen faster.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What is Jumo? Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page. Tags: nptech , Social Media , Web 2.0 Sounds like it has great possibilities; time will tell.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Myths about Online Giving Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 1st, 2010 There are so many myths about online giving. 33% of online donors will switch channels to become offline donors. Here are five that need to be busted.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2014

If you are a salesperson or sell a product or service, make, The Art of Social Selling , the next book you read. Belew''s new book features compelling case studies , and clear and concise instructions on how to master the art of social selling. Thanks to the book publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Note from Beth: I’m working on the sequel to the Networked Nonprofit – it is a book about using measurement to prove and improve results with the Measurement Goddess KD Paine. (Her recent book, Measuring What Matters , is a must read.). Source: Altimeter. However, conversion rates were flat. Content Curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

At the Cross Section of Web, Social and Mobile. Disparate marketing channels complicates the life of the average NPO today. How can a non-profit today use mobile technology, social and web in a way that increases participation, ensures success and provides easier management campaign and their resulting data points.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2015

If you are a salesperson or sell a product or service, make, The Art of Social Selling , the next book you read. If you don't yet believe the power of social selling, consider these stats and realities from Belew's book : Without social selling, 40 percent of sales teams make less than 80 percent of quota, on average (Xactly research).

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Mobile is going to be a huge channel.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to Emarketer, the proportion of companies using dedicated blogs as a marketing channel—excluding blogs on social networks and microblogs such as Twitter—will rise to 39% in 2011 and to 43% by 2012. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? In February 2006, WITNESS first social media tool was the launch of its YouTube Channel. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

There has been a series of ”lean” books diving in the topics, including one on measurement called Lean Analytics Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster by A listair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz that I reviewed earlier this year. .” 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact by Meg Rulli.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2010

I particularly like the parts about: How much information is enough information to communicate How to choose the best communication channel How to manage your companys rumor mill David recently told me that his eBook is for any leader. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

The 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report provides analysis of 28 major nonprofit organizations and transactions for over 15 million donors and more than $1 billion in revenue. The dominate giving channel for new donors 64 years old and younger is online — not offline. They get worse over time.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. She has also co-authored two books on using social media: “ The Networked Nonprofit ” with Allison Fine and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit with KD Paine.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. Use various media types to tell a single story : "Mix up the type of content you curate on your blog. Locker Project : " Locker Project allows you to archive and curate your own social media content across many channels" - from Evonne on the TechSoup Forums.

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